MCmatlab: an open-source user-friendly MATLAB-integrated 3D Monte Carlo light transport solver with heat diffusion and tissue damage

Dominik Marti; Rikke Aasbjerg; Peter E. Andersen; Anders K. Hansen

doi:10.1117/12.2507754

1 March 2019 MCmatlab: an open-source user-friendly MATLAB-integrated 3D Monte Carlo light transport solver with heat diffusion and tissue damage

Dominik Marti, Rikke Aasbjerg, Peter E. Andersen, Anders K. Hansen

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Proceedings Volume 10876, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXX; 108760T (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2507754
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

While there exist many Monte Carlo (MC) programs for solving the radiative transfer equation (RTE) in biological tissues, we have identified a need for an open-source MC program that is sufficiently user-friendly for use in an education environment, in which detailed knowledge of compiling or UNIX command-line cannot be assumed. Therefore, we introduce MCmatlab, an open-source codebase thus far consisting of (a) a fast 3D Monte Carlo RTE solver and (b) a finite-element heat diffusion and Arrhenius-based thermal tissue damage simulator, both run in MATLAB. The kernel for both of these solvers are written in parallelized C and implemented as MATLAB MEX functions, combining the speed of C with the familiarity and versatility of MATLAB. We present example results generated by the RTE solver and the thermal model. MCmatlab is easy to install and use and can be used by students and experienced researchers alike for simulating tissue light propagation and, optionally, thermal damage.

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Dominik Marti, Rikke Aasbjerg, Peter E. Andersen, and Anders K. Hansen "MCmatlab: an open-source user-friendly MATLAB-integrated 3D Monte Carlo light transport solver with heat diffusion and tissue damage", Proc. SPIE 10876, Optical Interactions with Tissue and Cells XXX, 108760T (1 March 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2507754

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